Guard for safety catches of automatic pistols



W. c. WRIGHT v GUARD FOR SAFETY CATCHES OF' AUTOMATIC PISTOLS Filed June 26. 1924 www Patented Deco 9, 1924.

` UNITED STATES WALTER C. WRIGHT, OF YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO.

GUARD FOR SAFETY CATCHES OF AUTOMATIC PISTOLS.

Application led June 26, 1924. Serial No. 722,590,

To all whom t may concern: 1

Be it known that l, lVAL'rnR C. VRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Youngstown, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful ln'iprovements in Guards for Safety Catches of Automatic Pistols, of which the following is a specification.

rThis invention relates to improvements in automatic pistols of the magazine type.

Pistols of the type referred to above ordinarily comprise a receiver which constitutes the frame of the firearm and which includes a hollon7 stock to receive the magazine which is held in place by a catch which may be manually manipulated to permit of withdrawal of the magazine, and such rearms are usually so constructed that the said catch is exposed with the result that in withdrawing the firearm from the pocket or a holster, the said catch is liable to so engage the pocket or some portion of the holster as to result in release of the magazine and its displacement either partially or wholly. Therefore, the present invention has as its object to so construct the stock of an automatic pistol that the magazine catch will be protected in such a manner as to preclude any possibility of it being accidentally actuated to release the magazine.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of an automatic pistol embodying the invention,

Figure 2 is a bottom plan view of the stock end of the piston,

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Figure 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows,

Figure a is a detail vertical transverse sectional view on the line fl-Ll of Figure 3, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows.

In the drawings, the numeral 1 indicates in general the receiver of the iirearm which is provided with the usual chambered stock 2 into which is fitted the magazine which is indicated in general by the numeral 3. The numeral 4 indicates the usual slide which houses the barrel (not shown) and the numeral 5 indicates the usual trigger guard for the trigger 6 and which guard constitutes a part of the receiver 2. The magazine 3 houses the usual elevating spring 7, and the magazine is provided with the usual side wall 8, front wall 9, and bottom 10. In carrying out the invention, the bottom 10 of the magazinewill be formed somewhat thicker' than usual and it will be provided in its under side with a recess indicated by the numeral 11, the thinned rear end portion of the bottom resulting from the formation of thisvrecess being indicated by the numeral 12, and constituting the equivalent of that portion of the bottom of the ordinary magazine which is engaged by the magazine catch indicated by the numeral- `13 and of the usual construction, the catch being Vheld in engagement with the said thinned portion 12 of the bottom 10 by the usual spring 14 and having associated with it the usual grip safety indicated by the numeral 15. These parts, with the exception of the bottom of the magazine, are of the usual construction but it has heretofore been the practice to leave the knurled head 16 of the magazine catch 13 exposed to such extent that it is liable to come into contact with surrounding objects.

By reference now to Figures 1, 3 and 4 of the drawings, it will be observed that the sides of the stock 2 of the receiver 1 are eX- tended downwardly so as to have their lower edges substantially in marginal registration with the under side of the bottom 10 of the magazine 3 when the magazine is in place and it will be evident, therefore, that these walls constitute side walls for the recess 11 completely housing the knurled head 16 of the magazine catch 13, the said lower eX- tended portions of the side walls of the stock being indicated by the numeral 17. By rea-son of this construction, the said knurled head or similar linger piece of the magazine catch will be completely housed in suc-h a manner that it cannot accidentally come into engagement with any surrounding objects although it may be readily actuated by inserting the finger into the recess and engaging the said hea-d 16. Therefore, there is no likelihood of the magazine being released when the weapon is quickly withdrawn from the pocket or a holster and which release, in the ordinary automatic pistol, renders the same useless.

The device embodying the invention is especially useful when the pistol is carried in the pocket and particularly when carried in either side pantsl pocket, as in moving about in the pocket its magazine catch, if arranged as is ordinarily done, would be liable to be shifted to release the magazine.

Hav-ing .thus described the invention, what I claim is:

l. In an automatic pistol, in 4combination, a stock, a magazine removably arranged Within the stock, -the sides of the stock eX- tending beneath a portion of the bottom of the magazine, and a catch "for bhe :magazine housed between the said sides of the stock and coacting with 'the said 'portion of the 1aottom of the magazine to retain `the maga zi'fne :in Aplace wit-'hin *the zstock.

12. In fanautoinatic pistol, in combination, as'tock including the usual magazine receiver, a Imagazine 4removably arranged Within the steek and 'having a recess i-n its under side, the sides offthe stock being Iextended downwardly beside fthe bottom of jthe magazine and at opposite sides of the recess whereby to provide la housing, and fa catch yfor vthe magazine arranged ibetween the said sides and Within 1thesad housing.

3. In an auto-matic pistol, in combination,

a stock including the usual magazine receiver, a magazine removably arranged Within `the stock and formed iin its Iundei side at .its rea-r portion With a recess, the sides of the stock Abeing extended downwardly and substantially in registration with the vunder-side of the bottom of the maga-zine and extending at opposite sides of the recess, and :a catch ycoaching with the Wall of the recess and housed Within said Wall and between the said sid of `ithe stock.

4. 'In an .automat/ie pistol, in rcombination, a stock, :a magazine .removably arranged Within the stock, and a :ca-'tch for the ymagazine coactilng with ai portion of the `bottom of tthe swine to retain the magazine in plane With-in ithe stock, the stock havin-g a portion entendil 'g below the said catdh yand the said portion of the 2bottom o-f the magazine tand housing the said parts.

In testimony whereof iI yain -my signature.

'WAI-TER C. WRIGHT. [L. si] 

